Halloween Blogathon: The Fly

It’s that classic tale of boy meets girl, unless you count the girl being a crack science reporter and the boy being a semi-mad genius obsessed with teleportation.
Seth Brundle is a researcher working on how to make teleportation work.   Veronica Quaife scents a story in Seth Brundle; she follows him back to his lab and [...]

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Reader’s Choice – Guilty Pleasures: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Uh… it’s like candy coated vampire lore?

Visually speaking, Dracula is a feast.   It’s beautifully lit and bathed in an aura of Victorian sensibilities drenched in crimson and black.    It has some stunning old-school sequences like in the beginning, where a beautiful opening montage explains how Dracula came to be a vampire.   The costumes are gorgeous; [...]

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QT Week: Death Proof

Death Proof is an often criticized film.  While I don’t disagree that it’s not Tarantino’s best work, I think there’s a lot more to like about it than a lot of people give it credit for.
In Austin, Texas, a group of girlfriends roam about town and end up in a bar on their way to [...]

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QT Week (Extended): Kill Bill

My thoughts on Kill Bill are this:  it should have been one movie.   One very long movie, but one movie nonetheless and that Volume 1 makes Volume 2 pale in comparison.
I don’t know if Tarantino can ever top that House of Blue Leaves scene.  It has so much good in it and so much [...]

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Flashback: Rear Window

Image found here.
L.B. Jeffries, known as “Jeff” to his friends, is an in-demand photographer.   He’s traipsed through jungles and battlefields, but is sidelined in his small New York apartment after suffering a broken leg.   The only company he has is an insurance company nurse named Stella and his sophisticated girlfriend Lisa.   With [...]

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#1553: Sudden Death

Nothing to start your day off right like some Van Dammage.

Image found here.
Van Damme plays a fire marshal who takes his kids to a Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game.   It’s not just any hockey game, it’s the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals.   The only thing he didn’t count on — cue the [...]

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#1552: Hellboy II – The Golden Army

Oh, Guillermo del Toro!

Poster found here.
Hellboy II picks up mostly where the first left off.   The paranormal team is still fighting the good fight sans Harry, who was shipped to Antarctica, and a new member comes aboard.   Johann Krauss is a German ectoplasmic man in a steampunk looking suit and he’s a stickler [...]

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#1551: The Screwfly Solution (Masters of Horror)

SPOILER WARNING.

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#1549: The Hangover

Doug (Justin Bartha) is traveling to Las Vegas with his friends Stu (Ed Helms) and Phil (Bradley Cooper) as well as his soon to be brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis).    Stu’s stuck with a harridan for a girlfriend, Phil’s excited to get away from his wife and kid and Alan … well, Alan’s just got [...]

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#1547: Transformers 2 – Revenge of the Fallen

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
– Macbeth, Act V, Scene V

Good old William Shakespeare wasn’t referring to Michael Bay flicks, naturally, but rather life.   The above quote is one of Shakespeare’s most famous and overused quotes but I could think of none other that so [...]

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